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Cathy Freeman has an Olympic’s dream when she was young. During the 400 meters Olympic games in Sydney, she won the gold medal. She became the first Aboriginal Australian athlete to win the individual game. Cathy is an Aussie Indigenous hero.

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Bethany Hamilton, one of the greatest female surfers in the world, received multiple awards, including the Best Comeback Athlete ESPY Award, soon after recovering from a truly life-changing experience: a shark attack. Even though difficult days were ahead of her, Hamilton displayed her wonder-woman strength by staying positive, persevering, and dedicating herself to her passions of serving the Lord, inspiring others, and of course, surfing.

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Kaillie Humphries is a Canadian-born bobsledder and the current champion for the Olympic two-woman competition of the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics (Olympic 6). She retains the record of the first female bobsledder to have maintained her title in the Olympics. Other achievements include the two-time overall World Cup championship while defending her achieved position. Her career in sports started as an Alpine ski racer at the age of sixteen, however, she retired from the sport after breaking her legs in different incidents. After a long recovery, she started training in bobsleigh as a brakeman and was among the selected team in the 2006 Olympic team. In bobsleigh driving school, she won a silver medal, her first award in a bobsleighing competition.

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Fanny Blankers-Koen was born in the Netherlands on April 26, 1918. As a teenager she won a Dutch National Championship in the 800 meter run. She participated in her first Olympic Games in 1936. However, she did not take home any medals. She could not wait to try again at the next Olympics. When the next Olympic Games came around, people told Fanny she could not compete because of her age. She also received criticism from people who thought she should stay home and take care of her two children. If she left to compete, some thought of her as a failure of a mother and wife. Despite people telling her she could not do it, Fanny started training and at the age of thirty participated in her second Olympic Games.

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She was a member of the US women's national ice hockey team. She has won 4 successive Winter Olympic Games, including one Gold medal, two Silver, and one Bronze. She also competed in ten Women's World Championships winning four Gold medals and six Silver. Additionally, Angeka also penned a memoir about her hockey experiences titled ‘Breaking the Ice’.

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To start off, the very broad term of equality is the notion that every human being in the world is treated the same, no matter their age, gender, class, or race. Comparing to other political systems, democracy values equality more than any other as it involves the commitment in upholding equal treatments between citizens. To measure the level of democracy in a territory in terms of associational autonomy, one must observe the level of equality that is promoted in that country. Looking at any state, minorities are primarily the ones discriminated against by their government and citizens. In Tunisia, the minorities are women and as a result they were secluded in economic, political, and social affairs. The period of time when women were mostly segregated in Tunisia was when the state was under the possession of France. Women living in Tunisia during this period were mainly housewives as they did not have much access to education and were required to wear veils in public. However, once Tunisia received its independence in 1956 from France, the Personal Status Code was created by the republic government which provided females several legal rights such as the right to divorce, the right to receive an education, and the right to obtain an occupation.

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